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"It's a cracked pitcher that goes oftenest to the well."

"Little pitchers have big ears. (Strauss 1994, p. 653)"

"All rising to great place is by a winding stair. (Francis Bacon)"

"He had need rise early who would please everybody."

"Poets are born, but orators are trained. (Strauss, 1998 p. 331)"

"Politeness costs nothing and gains everything."

"Politics makes strange bedfellows."

"A little pot is easily hot."

"Shit or get off the pot. ( W., 1975)"

"A watched pot never boils."

"Come away; poverty's catching. (Aphra Behn)"

"Poverty is the reward of idleness."

"Power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts absolutely."

"Practice what you preach."

"Precepts teach, examples move."

"You can't be a little pregnant."

"A prejudice is a vagrant opinion without visible means of support. (Ambrose Bierce)"

"Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst."

"An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure."

"All those men have their price. (Robert Walpole)"

"Every man has his price."

"Everything is worth its price. (Strauss, 1994 p. 800)"

"I know my price. (William Shakespeare)"

"Pride comes before the fall. (Strauss, 1994 p. 1148)"

"Prisons are built with stones of Law, brothels with bricks of Religion. (William Blake)"

"If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem. (Adam, 2010 p. 25)"

"A problem shared is a problem halved. (Strauss, 1994 p. 351)"

"An acre of performance is worth the whole world of promise."

"As proud as a peacock. (14th century)"

"As proud as Lucifer. (14th century)"

"Now Barabbas was a publisher. (Lord Byron)"

"Punishment is lame but it comes. (Strauss, 1994 p. 682)"

"A civil question deserves a civil answer."

"Slow and steady wins the race. (Strauss, 1994 p. 1155)"

"A rag and a bone and a hank of hair."

"Like a red rag to a bull."

"Rats desert a sinking ship. (Strauss, 1994 p. 1150)"

"Reality is not only stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine."

"What you sow is what you reap."

"Reason does not come before years. (Strauss, 1994 p. 1150)"

"The remedy is worse than the disease. (Francis Bacon) (Citatboken, Bokförlaget Natur och Kultur, Stockholm, 1967, p. 56, ISBN 91-27-01681-1)"

"Revenge is a dish best served cold."

"To forget wrong is the best revenge."

"Revolution: in politics, an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment. (Ambrose Bierce)"

"If you're so smart, why aren't you rich?"

"Riches are for spending. (Francis Bacon)"

"There is no royal road to learning."

"He makes a rod for his own back. (14th century)"

"At Rome one must do the Romans do."

"Name not a rope in his house who hanged himself."